Atheists: Do you still use the word “God” as a metaphor? Or a derivative thereof as a curse word?
I’m an atheist but I still find the metaphor useful at times. I mean, what else is “god” but a personification of the grand scheme of things? She’s basically a literary term.

If I stub my toe I’m not going to say “Gosh darn it” I’m probably going to say “God damn it” because it doesn’t take as much effort to get the words out. Other then situations like that I usually don’t use the word.

Yes, it’s a useful word. It means one’s conception of the highest possible. When Ayn Rand, an avid atheist, was asked if she believed in God, she replied “God, No!” To her, the highest possible is a creative, productive, rational human being. The individual is God. It is in the name of this that she rejected the Christian idea of God.